Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Vol. 28 No. 1 (Jan. 2013)


CONTENTS

Commentary
The Powers of Special Interest Groups …………………………………………………………………. Yoshinobu Kitamura 1

Special Issue:“Editorial Board Members’Aspirations for 2013”
Editor’s Introduction to“Editorial Board Members’Aspirations for 2013”……………………………………………. Yutaka Matsuo 2
Yutaka Matsuo, Satoshi Kurihara, Ryutaro Ichise, Akinori Abe, Toshihiro Kamishima, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Yasufumi Takama, Hideaki Takeda, Shusaku Tsumoto, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Tsuyoshi Idé, Nobuhiro Ito, Kouzou Ohara, Koh Kakusho, Daisuke Katagami, Hisashi Kashima, Kentaro Kayama, Daisuke Kawahara, Tomoko Kojiri, Kazunori Komatani, Mamoru Komachi, Kosuke Shinoda, Masaru Suzuki, Hirotoshi Taira, Hiroya Takamura, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Ayahiko Niimi, Takuichi Nishimura, Hiromitsu Hattori, Ken Hanazawa, Masahiro Hamasaki, Kouichi Hirata, Tsutomu Fujinami, Danushka Bollegala, Takeshi Morita, Takehisa Yairi, Tomohisa Yamashita, Hiroaki Wagatsuma, Misato Tanaka, Susumu Tamagawa

Special Issue:“Practical Issues of Spoken Dialogue Systems”
Editors’Introduction to“Practical Issues of Spoken Dialogue Systems” …………………. Ken Hanazawa, Kazunori Komatani and Kentaro Kayama 43
A Brief History of Spoken Dialogue Systems ―Evolution and Recent Technical Trend― ……………………………………………………………….. Tatsuya Kawahara 45
Technical Advances of Speech-Oriented Guidance System“Takemaru-kun”by 10 Years of Long-Term Operation
……………………………………….. Ryuichi Nisimura, Sunao Hara, Hiromichi Kawanami, Akinobu Lee and Kiyohiro Shikano 52
On-Campus, User-Participatable, and Voice-Interactive Digital Signage
……………………………………………. Keiichiro Oura, Daisuke Yamamoto, Ichi Takumi, Akinobu Lee and Keiichi Tokuda 60
Construction and Language Portability of Sightseeing Guidance System with Spoken Dialog Interfaces ―Knowledge and Problems Obtained through the Development and Operation of Spoken Dialog System“AssisTra”―
…………………………………………………………Teruhisa Misu, Etsuo Mizukami, Chiori Hori and Hideki Kashioka 68
Speech Recognition and Natural Language Interface in Industry …………………. Kosuke Tsujino, Minoru Etoh, Yoshinori Isoda and Shinya Iizuka 75

Special Issue:“Big Data and Artificial Intelligence”
Editor’s Introduction to“Big Data and Artificial Intelligence” …………………………………………………… Michiaki Iwazume 82
State-of-the-Art Research Trends in Stream Computing ………………………………………………………. Toyotaro Suzumura 84
Scalable Complex Event Processing Technologies ……………………………………….. Kazuhiko Isoyama, Tadashi Sato and Koji Kida 91
Jubatus: Scalable Distributed Processing Framework for Realtime Machine Learning ………………………………….. Daisuke Okanohara 98
okuyama: Construction of a Distributed Shared Memory Storage Based on a Distributed Key-Value Store for a Large Scale Information Infrastructure
………………………………. Takahiro Iwase, Hideaki Fujii, Kouji Tanaka, Hiroshi Haraguchi, Makoto Hijiya and Michiaki Iwazume 104
Media Processing Technologies for Repurposing Large-Scale Unstructured Data
…………………………… Hisashi Ikeda, Nobuo Nukaga, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Naoyuki Kanda, Yuki Watanabe and Junichi Hirayama 114
Current State of the Use of Data in Solving the Problems of the Transportation System and Future Outlook …………………….. Norio Hashiguchi 122
Speech and Natural Language Processing in Massive AI Era …………………………………………………….. Satoshi Nakamura 130

Lecture Series:“What’s AI?”(1)
Editor’s Introduction to“What’s AI?”……………………………………………………………………… Yutaka Matsuo 138
What’s AI?(1) ………………………………………………………………………………… Hideyuki Nakashima 139

Short-short stories(3)
No. 4 …………………………………………………………………….. Story: Yu Yamaguchi and Illustration: Tori Miki 144
No. 5 …………………………………………………………………….. Story: Yu Esaka and Illustration: Kazumi Tojou 147
No. 6 …………………………………………………………………….. Story: Akira Hori and Illustration: Kazumi Tojou 150

Special Issue:“Doctorial Theses on Aritificial Intelligence”
New Trends of Researches for Doctorial Theses ………………………………………… Koh Kakusho and Takehisa Yairi 153
Foundations of AI …………………………………………………………………………… 154
Machine Learning and Data Mining …………………………………………………………………. 154
Knowledge Use and Sharing …………………………………………………………………….. 159
Web Intelligence …………………………………………………………………………… 159
Agents ………………………………………………………………………………… 162
Soft Computing……………………………………………………………………………. 163
Natural Language Processing …………………………………………………………………….. 165
Image and Speech Processing …………………………………………………………………….. 167
Robot and Real World ………………………………………………………………………… 168
Human Interfaces and Computer-Supported Education/Learning …………………………………………………. 169

Special Issue:“CREP”
Editor’sIntroductionto“CREP2011” ………………………………………………………….. AkinoriAbe 171

My Bookmark
Information Visualization ……………………………………………………………. Yasuhiro Hashimoto 179

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